its Rogers neighbourhood

Idiots.

Rogers decided to make Miriam's life hell recently by telling her that she had used in excess of 400 GB of her download limit. Anyone who knows this woman knows that she rarely surfs, she doesn't download anything, and her computer is on maybe 5 hours a week, so odds of this being her own activity are pretty slim. We got this resolved with some more knowledgeable people over the telephone, but to be safe, in case this was some kind of spamming mail-bot, we downloaded Rogers online security and installed in, getting rid of the Norton antivirus that she had just paid to have installed. It crossed my mind that as a frequent downloader myself, I might be at risk, so I did the same thing.

Well. My computer now runs a lot slower than it used to, now that this is running in the background. Granted my machine is a bit on the older side of things, but that's because I am not going to "upgrade" to Vista anytime soon and have everything screw up on me. I can hardly watch anything on youtube anymore; it looks like excerpts from the Shopping Channel, or the way it used to look. Even watching DivX videos is dodgy, with the frames freezing every so often, just enough to be disconcerting. And odd times there is this odd "click" sound over the speakers, which is the default sound my browser uses when it changes or refreshes a page, so I know something's going on in there.

Thanks Rogers. Thanks for making my online experience just that much more tedious.

You bastards.

That is all.